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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the book of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus near the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the booke of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus neare the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. Simmons, 1661
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The Hebrew is they made him wicked, 1or condemned him as a wicked man. So the Septuagint, they had no answer for him, and yet concluded him wicked; we say, they had condemned Job; and the reason of it is, because to condemn a man is to leave him under a supposal of wickedness, and to stigmatize or brand him for a wicked man. All the wicked shall at last be condemned, and ⟨p. 30⟩none ought to be condemned, nor are any condemned justly now but the wicked; He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are an abomination to the Lord, (Pro. 17.15.) There is a very elegant transposition of the words in the Hebrew; we may render the text thus; He that justifieth the wicked, and wickedeth the just, &c. The law of Moses gave an express rule against this perversion of Judgement, in terms quite cross to those in Solomon (Deut: 25.1.) If there be any controversy between men, and they come unto Judgement, that the Judges may Judge them, then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked. Which you may render thus; They shall justify the just, and wickedise the wicked, that is, they shall declare the just man just, and the wicked man to be wicked. That man either really is, or is accounted wicked, who is cast in his cause and condemned. That was a dreadful sentence (the Scripture (Acts 1.20.) shows it fulfilled upon the traitor Judas) when he is judged, let him be condemned (Psal. 109.7.) we put in the margin, let him go out guilty or wicked. In this sense Jobs three friends when they condemned him, cast him as a wicked man, though they had nothing to answer the plea which he made for his own integrity. We must not conceive any such wickedness in them,2 that they were resolved to condemn him right or wrong, yet they held their conclusion against the light and reason of all his premises, and though they could prove no ill against him, yet vehemently suspecting him, they concluded he was an ill man, and so condemned him.